These are the thirteen documents that marked the world in some way
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Humanity has been surpassed by many Historical monuments exist, but we can only know about those that have been documented in some way. For this reason, historical documents eventually acquire a lot of value for demarcating eternity into eternity Society changes🇧🇷 So, in this article you will find some of them. Read to the end and remember the great historical monuments.
Documented history
Documents serve to preserve memories, preserve historical facts, and essentially serve as evidence of events. However, it is important to stress that they can be presented in different ways, some documents are written, others are drawn, but they all tell a story. Meet some of them here.
1. The poem of the brothers
Written on papyrus, the lyric “Poema dos Irmãos” is one of the greatest documents of humanity, being one of the few surviving fragments of the 10,000 poems written by Sappho (ca. 630 – 570 BC).
2, Cyrus cylinder
It is nothing more than a 2,600-year-old cylinder, made of clay, and has a version relating to the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus in 539 BC.
3. The Art of War
The document prepared by Master Sun is one of the first documents that talk about military strategies, which are a source of inspiration to this day for the Far East and the West.
4. Ruler card
The English document, prepared by King John in 1215, was the first to address any issue of human rights, by defining the right to justice for all free persons.
5. Gutenberg Bible
The first big book to be printed, after that, large-scale printing became a real thing.
6. Summa Theologica
The work of 1485 was made by Thomas Aquino, and it contains all the great teachings of the Catholic Church.
7. Declaration of Independence
After the issuance and adoption of the National Convention, more than 10 American colonies severed political relations with Great Britain.
8. The Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights
In 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly issued a document that was one of the first to deal with civil human rights.
9. The Slavery Abolition Act
The Act took effect on August 1, 1834, and decreed the immediate abolition of the slave market in most English lands.
10. Handbook of the Communist Manifesto
Created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it ended up becoming the Communist Manifesto, an influential political document around the world.
11. Dream Interpretation
The document prepared by the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, became the basis for the theory of the Oedipus complex.
12. The Treaty of Versailles
The treaty was an agreement that ended World War I.
13. Women’s vote
Through a constitutional amendment in 1920, the United States formally established the right to vote for women.
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